White House agrees on rebate plan

Hello! I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI weekly White House wrap-up. The White House has reportedly agr...  More »

Hello! I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI weekly White House wrap-up. The White House has reportedly agreed with Congress on giving American taxpayers several hundred dollars to help the slowing economy. Under the plan, individuals would receive a tax rebate check for about $600. Families may get up to $1200. Checks could be in taxpayers' mailboxes by June. A new study out says President Bush and his top aides publicly made more than 900 false statements about Iraq in the two years following 9/11. That study was released earlier this week by two nonprofit journalism groups. The research accuses Bush and seven top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, who was National Security Adviser at the time, made incorrect statements Iraq's link to al Qaeda and Saddam's Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration isn't satisfied with information it's getting about terrorist groups and militants in Pakistan and therefore says it won't conduct military strikes on its own inside the country. That's unless President Pervez Musharraf's government requests support. U.S. government officials say Pakistanis would likely see too much U.S. involvement as unwelcoming. More than 40 percent of Pakistanis support Al-Qaida and radical Islam. That's it for this week's wrap-up from the White House. Thanks for watching.  « Less